Cyprus fines twins for nude sunbathing

By Sean O'Neill

12:00AM BST 22 Aug 2000

TWIN sisters have become the latest British tourists to be fined in a clampdown on nudity and streaking in a Cypriot resort.

Angela and Deborah Joyce, 22, were seen by a policeman sunbathing naked at 5am beside their hotel pool in Ayia Napa. The officer ordered the women to put on some clothes, then informed them that they were being arrested for breaking public decency laws.

Although there had been no complaints from hotel guests, the sisters were fined £45 by a court in Larnaca for performing an indecent act. During the past two months eight British tourists, the majority of them men, have been fined for streaking through Ayia Napa.